• stinerman [Ohio]@midwest.social
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    11 months ago

    It’s a fine picture of various platforms, but I’d have trouble calling Twitch, Discord, and YouTube “social media.” Discord is basically IRC with more bells and whistles and no one ever called IRC “social media.”

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      11 months ago

      Social media wasn’t a thing back when IRC was big but it did basically the same as modern social media sites do today: people connected and talked. And I would argue that Twitch/Discord/YouTube do different things than Facebook or Twitter in the end all of those places are there to connect and talk about stuff (and to harvest money and data).